Russian Senator Tatyana Lebedeva Stripped of 2 Olympic Medals

Vanessa James and Morgan Cipres finished second in the short program at the European championships.CreditDavid W Cerny/Reuters

Jan. 25, 2017

A Russian senator who has been a vocal defender of the country’s embattled state sports system was stripped of two Olympic medals on Wednesday.

Tatyana Lebedeva won silver medals in the long jump and the triple jump at the 2008 Beijing Games. The International Olympic Committee recalled those medals after Lebedeva tested positive for the steroid turinabol in a reanalysis of samples taken at the time.

Lebedeva, who still has two other Olympic medals from the Sydney and Athens Games, retired from competition in 2013 and became a Russian senator a year later. She has accused the World Anti-Doping Agency of trying to manipulate the Olympics, calling the agency a tool of “the Anglo-Saxon lobby.”

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